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This is our collection of discrete tech-supported campaigns designed to create a change in the world. A campaign is the method in which we organize people to shift power. Technology has changed how campaigns operate, for the better (it's never been easier or cheaper to reach and organize large numbers of people) and the worse (private data has been used to profile voters, and technology is accused of facilitating shallower relationships between supporters).
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DataIgualdad
Latin AmericaRevisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina
FairVote
MarylandFairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.
Gig Workers Rising
San Jose, California, USACampaign to rally everyone who works on apps for a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions, and a voice in their work
Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API
an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients
Democracy Beyond Elections
United States of America (the)A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
HetzJaeger
GermanyA campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.
Decriminalize Poverty
TennesseeThis narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages
מפת מחאות יום ד' 1.3.23
Israel"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Gas Leaks
United States of America (the)Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation
#STOPSHOTSPOTTER
United States of America (the)A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."
IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.
The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Redes Ayuda
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)Derechos Humanos en Venezuela #RedesAyuda #ONG
AidAccess
United States of America (the)Online consult for abortion pills by mail
Eduplana
NigeriaEduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.
Take Back The Tech! is a call to everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women.
La Constitución es Nuestra
Santiago, ChileProyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.
Public Bank LA
Los Angeles, CABanking as a public utility is a proven model worldwide. Public banks keep money local and cut costs by eliminating middlemen, shareholders and high-paid executives.
Archiving local political websites
United States of America (the)Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.
Follow The Money Nigeria
NigeriaWe advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.
Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.
Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.
Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.
Protect Our Care
Austin, TXA campaign leveraging personal stories about Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act to defend it from legislative attacks
TNCS Today San Francisco
San FranciscoData map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco
Planned Parenthood Saved Me
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USAWe're posting stories from people whose lives were saved or changed because they had access to affordable, compassionate healthcare through Planned Parenthood.
Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.
Narrative Initiative
594 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USANarrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Search racism find truth
BerlinA Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice
Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
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